The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-21

ton planters has been the best business he
could do in Tennessee during twenty-five
years, and he believes that any other far
mer, by keeping five or six brood mares
and working them enough to pay for their
keep. might have an income of $500 or $500
a year, and save the wages and provisions
of two laborers.
Are you going to try few sheep, IN
quires the Live Stock Indicator, so as to
make some mutton and give the family
rest from the regulation salt pork they have
had about 365 days in the year; to eat down
the briars and fence-corner weeds; to leave
q little Of the best fertilizer here and there
where 1t will do the most good, and to
raise some staple wool that is ripe for the
market, and put spot cash into the family
exchequer at a time of year when scarcely
anything else does2
Mr.. Hoord says in his Dairymsu, speak
ing sgainst general-purpose COWS, that
racehorse men must have racehorses in or
der to win. The dairyman who subjects
himself to the large expense of running q
dairy must have specific dairy COWS, what.
ever the breed, in order that they may win.
The sooner farmers, breeders aud agrlcait-
ural journals shall get through talking
this general-purposs nonsense the less il
will cost Us all to produce the kind of COW
we need in order to make the best profit
possible in dairying.
The everyday horse that is able to pull
the plough six days out of the week, and If
necessary, jog off to church on the seventh.
Is the horse that is truly valuable to the
general farmer, and the horse that adds
mosl 10 tn "eaIuu IL ne country. rAusJ
steppers may be sold for doub.- or treble
or tsn tITnes the money thai one OF to-
hooest cid farm horses Will bring, bu,
when we hegiu to search for the general
haU ho fv,y. .
have brought TO their Owners we fad il
comparatively small.
+. A. Allen. in the BREEDER Gszstte,
says that eeciing a ngle co or two from
| herd of so or 1C0 and '.testing" the II,
rs the phrase soe-, by extraorci 1rY gu IN
titles of stimus ting foo }. resting mora 10
The seRraOs'e a. ~ the butter they yield IN
their brief tris's is worth, and giving it
out to the worlo as specimen of the whole
herd from whic' neg are taken, is not an
| accurate way to sdYertise them to the pub
lie, when the en- ire herd at an average
would not show better yields than many
other well-bred herds of even our native
| COWS.
In pertinent article on swine feeding,
the National Live Stock Journal says:
NOW, the true way to fatten pigs, at any
season OF the yesr, is to give portion of
coarse food, such ss turnips, beets. carrots,
potatoes, cooked clover hay or grass, the
| last being the natural food OF the pig, and
in summer always at hand. If we take all
the hogs fattened in the United States in q
year, and change the tina of fattening
from cold to warm weather, one-halt the
grain now fed will make all the pork.
! This would be saving of food, at least, to
the amount of $76,eOO,OOO per year."
Dorsets are unrivaled for producing the
| earliest fat lambs for the London and 9th
er markets, as the ewes, when highly fed,
will take the ram in April or at almost any
period. They drop greater proportion oil
twins and triplets than any other breed,
and are most excellent nurses. The lamb:
wesned in October or November are, with
good fee ding, generally ready for the
butcher in about ten or eleven weeks, and
the ewes, quickly iattened, siterward at.
tain twenty or twenty-five pounds pei
quarter. Southdown rams are generally
used when the object is to produce lamb;
far winter killing.